You gotta love the Dems.
First, they ran away from debates hosted by FOX News. All the caterwauling at the time was that FOX News wouldn't be "fair" to them. See this as a supposed example of why journalists working for FOX News scare Dems so much.
At the time, I couldn't help but wonder how loudly liberals would whine if Republicans wouldn't debate on NBC or CNN. The shrieking from the left was that they were only interested in "fairness." It was a joke, of course. The examples of supposed "unfairness" to Dems included actually asking them uncomfortable questions that voters want answered.
Now, the DNC has announced the Liberal--er, Democratic presidential debate schedule. Guess what? It's all on CNN and NBC/MSNBC!
Obviously, Dems think they'll get softball questions from both networks and they're probably right. Of course, they'll miss the audience--which includes a lot of Democrats--who watch FOX News, but they aren't worried about a thing like a few votes, right?
I suspect that the number of people who would vote in a Democratic party primary, and who watch Fox news, is fairly small.
ReplyDeletePrimary voters in the Democratic party are to the left of the party mainstream, just as primary voters in the Republican party are to the right of the party mainstream, on average.
Exposure to people watching Fox would be good for the general election, no doubt; but these debates are targeting the primaries.
Also, there's a debate on CBS, as well.
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